To be worried....SOOOOOOO gross

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Am flapping a bit...had to pop 8month DD on floor in kitchen to deal very briefly with DS. After a few secs I came back in to find bubs clutching a handful of entrails which she was putting in her mouth. She had blood on both hands and around her mouth and a sort of weird powder or grain which had come out of some of the guts. Having grown up in Africa I know I will have ingested all manner of stuff so the blood doesn't worry me....it's the grain. I'm worried someone could have put mouse bait down and she's got it into her. The cat seems fine the sod....he's only hunting because all of a sudden he doesn't like the cat food that he's been eating just fine for ages.
NHS 111 have told me to take her to A&E which seems on the one hand sensible and on the other hand seems a bit dramatic. She is OK at the omens but it's only been ten minutes or so.

HELP!!!

This is why people shouldn't own cate. How disgusting. What I the cat had attacked her while you were away?

Apart from derailing the thread, has anyone heard of a serious cat attack on a baby?

I hope you're on your way to a&e and everything turns out ok op.

This is why people shouldn't own cate. How disgusting. What I the cat had attacked her while you were away?
Yeah, all those reports of vicious cat attacks in the news...eyeroll.

If it helps, the amount of poison ingested by a mouse would not be enough to cause harm to a baby.

Your pet cat is far less likely to attack your child than your pet dog. I'd even hazard a guess your child is more likely to be injured by a stranger's dog in the street than by your own pets - whatever they be - but I don't have any stats to back that up.

In case you're interested...all ok following Mousegate. We're trying worried about giving her food and drink although I wasn't taking the risk and hadn't given her anything. She has antibiotics in case of mouse gut bacteria but any risk of potential poison was ruled out as it was such an unknown. Just monitor and go straight back if any changes. All hail the NHS. And Mumsnet.

Glad to hear it, as another African born child it may or may not help to know I once got into bits of chicken and blood left by my gran after slaughtering Sunday lunch. I'm still here 40 years later.

Just think of the fun you'll have telling future boyfriends

Glad all is okay. When my DS was just over one, he picked up a paintbrush soaked in white spirit. I was busy with his newborn baby brother. I wasn't sure whether he'd put it in his mouth or not, but was advised to take him straight to A&E, because the fumes from the stuff can cause lung damage. He was fine, it turned out he hadn't ingested any or breathed it in, but oh my god, I felt like the worst mother in the world. Particularly when I arrived at A&E and the staff immediately assumed my newborn had ingested or inhaled white spirit.

Does anyone else wish they hadn't opened this thread. I feel - that's sick not envy. Need to bleach my brain.

Pleased all is well after your visit to the A&E.

Get a playpen! Keep it in a non-entraily room!

Ugh - what a horrible experience. Glad she is fine - I can well imagine your horror when you first came upon the scene however

Glad all is ok & I hope the cat is suitably ashamed of itself!

This is why people shouldn't own cate. How disgusting. What I the cat had attacked her while you were away?

It's a cat, not a fucking snow leopard.

Bloody cats, such evil things, look at the damage my kitten did trying to climb my arm! 😮😄

Why would a cat attack the baby if it hasn't done so before User? It wasn't cats that attacked a two year old the other day was it?

Why would a cat attack the baby if it hasn't done so before

That doesn't make sense. If it had done so before, it would have done so not having done so before, wouldn't it?

But the risk is certainly low, anyway.

Glad she's OK OP.

I thought one of mine eating a whole slug was gross but this wins! Glad she's ok.